Summer Session 2010

Summer Session 2010: Enlighten your Summer At Saint Mary’s College

There’s no need to get caught up in the lazy days of summer when Saint Mary’s offers so many summer classes to keep the mind occupied. With a list that covers intensive three-week courses, five-week courses, and a special ten-week session for Human Anatomy and Physiology, students can receive the same quality instruction and interaction with professors as they do during the school year.

New to the Summer Sessions 2010 are online courses. Communications professor Terri Russ will be teaching Intercultural Communication, a course that examines the connections between culture and communication from two different perspectives: how culture is created through communication as a way to help us understand our place in the world, and how individuals from different cultures communicate with each other and are forced to find ways to overcome communication barriers and obstacles. “As a class we will be analyzing each other’s cultures and also constructing our own online class culture by bringing together elements from the individual posts,” says Russ. The class will be taught fully online with students interacting through email, discussion boards, individual WIKIs or blogs, and through a group WIKI or blog.

English professor Ted Billy will be teaching From Film to Fiction, a three-week tour through literary and cinematic terms and techniques. Students will learn that “adapting a work of fiction to the silver screen cannot be accomplished without transforming the elements of the story or novel into a primarily visual narrative with a significantly different set of elements,” says Billy. Students will read and discuss the written works and then view the film adaptations, and discuss how the narrative changed. They’ll then have the opportunity to write two papers about the texts or the films, or complete comparison-contrast papers on the work of fiction and its film counterpart. “Students gain a greater appreciation for the artistry of movies and often say that taking the course has changed the way they watch films in a positive way,” says Billy.

For more information on course offerings visit www3.saintmarys.edu/summer-session.